Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Rising Grain

Chang'an often closes the position and puts grain again, and puts grain at a low price. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

I heard that Li Jing, the prince of Yongkang County, was in Lingnan and called those slang Vietnamese chiefs brothers, and he appeased these slang Vietnamese barbarians who were still a little panicked in their hearts.

The Tang Dynasty never cared about the actions of the Lingnan chiefs who raised troops in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was all Yang Sui who had no way, and the people of Lingnan were only armed for self-defense, which was not called raising troops, it was called defending the township. Now that Li Tang has replaced Yang Sui and Lingnan has returned to his heart, of course the imperial court will not care about those things anymore.

Feng An, the most powerful native of Lingnan, was also rewarded by the imperial court. The grandson of Our Lady of Lingnan is also a descendant of the Northern Yan monarchs of the Sixteen Kingdoms. In that year, the Feng family moved south to Lingnan and married the Xian family, a local indigenous Yue surname, and has dominated one side ever since.

Whether it is Liang Qichen or Sui, the Feng family's status is unshakable, and they deserve to be the emperor of the soil.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Feng Ang raised troops and seized Lingnan.

Now that Jiangling in the upper reaches of Lingnan and Liang Xiao Mill in the south have been destroyed, and Du Fuwei of Jianghuai in the north has also descended to Tang, Feng Ang did not have the idea of trying to wrestle with the Tang Dynasty, and took the initiative to lower Tang. Anyway, Feng Ang is very smart, he knows that even if he descends to the Tang Dynasty, in this part of Lingnan, the Tang Dynasty still has to use the Feng family to rule with the help of the Xian family's power.

From the Southern Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, even if you enter the Tang Dynasty, it will not change anything.

Li Yuan was very pleased with Feng An's submission, Feng Ang was also a general in the Sui Dynasty back then, and he also had a friendship with Li Yuan in the same palace. Therefore, Li Yuan directly placed the eight prefectures of Gao and Luozhou under the jurisdiction of Feng An, and named Feng Ang as the Shangzhu State, the governor of Gaozhou, and the Duke of Wu Guo.

After receiving the order, Feng Ang immediately took the lead and raised a large number of gold, silver, silk and grain and grass, and escorted them to Chang'an.

Du Fuwei, the king of Wu in the north, has been under the Tang Dynasty for several years, and he also sent troops to help in this year's battle of Luoyang. Now he has to be given the surname Li, renamed Li Fuwei King Wu, and also added the southeast province Daxing Taishang Shuling, south of Jianghuai to pacify the ambassador, he is more active than Feng An, after the battle of Luoyang, between Jianghuai and Chang'an unimpeded, Li Fuwei also imported a large amount of grain and grass to Chang'an.

In the past few years, Li Tang has successively destroyed Liu Wuzhou in Hedong, Wang Shichong in Henan, and Xiao Milling in Jiangling, and they are invincible, and Feng Ang in Lingnan, Du Fuwei in Jianghuai, and Xu Yuanlang in Shandong have surrendered one after another, and the situation is getting better and better day by day.

Although it is said that after Dou Jiande of Hebei was defeated and captured and taken to Chang'an to be executed, Liu Heimin rebelled, but in the eyes of the world, Datang already has the mandate of heaven and has become orthodox.

The world is stable, and the people's hearts are stable.

The grain and grass in the southeast entered Beijing, and the Li Tang court finally had the confidence to take care of the high prices.

The Changping warehouse is full of grain and grass from Gangnam and Kanto.

A steady stream of grain and grass was transported from Kanto, and a steady stream of them were sold from the regular closing positions.

Food prices are getting lower day by day, and at first the purchase of affordable grain was limited, but now it is completely open.

Doumi is 500 yuan, Doumi is 400, and Doumi is 300 yuan, and to this day, Chang Ping has put out the latest price of 200 yuan for doumi.

This has fallen by more than half compared to the original, and in just a few days, the price of food has been cut in half.

A few families are happy and a few are sad, Chang'an's Shengdou small people are naturally very happy, grain prices have fallen, other prices have also fallen, it is not easy to live in Chang'an, now the grain has fallen, all prices have fallen, and I can finally take a breath.

However, those grain shops and rice shops, and even those landlords and grain merchants who secretly hoarded grain to raise grain prices, were not calm. Some businessmen with strong capital are better, they can sit still, but they also lose money.

However, many small grain merchants, who do not have their own estates, still buy grain at a high price. Originally, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit, but who knew that the price of food would suddenly plummet, which made them panic one by one.

These people are just like those stockholders, trapped.

After Zhang Chao signed a contract with the oil mill and the slaughterhouse in Chang'an City, he went to his store in Xishi. The shop has been renovated and has already opened its doors.

It mainly sells yellow steamed buns, meat buns, and noodles such as soy milk fritters and siu mai raw fritters, as well as soy products such as tofu and bean sprouts. I walked around the store and looked at the ledger presented by the shopkeeper.

The business is very good, and the business in the store is very busy.

Zhangjia Huang Bun has a good reputation, and there are many people who come to buy it every day, and now the reputation of the meat bun has also spread. Although rich and noble families don't eat pork, for ordinary people, pork is cheap and is still the first choice for eating meat.

It's just that in the past, rich and noble people didn't want to eat it, and ordinary people didn't know how to make it, so pork has always had a bad reputation.

But the Zhang family's meat buns, that is a delicacy.

I've eaten it once, and I definitely want to eat it a second time.

By the way, even soy milk fritters are selling very well, and tofu and other products are also selling very well every day. Even in the afternoon, there were many people lining up in front of Zhang's shop.

The business in the store is so good, so that Zhang Chao's little depression when he heard that the price of food has fallen again is gone.

The hundreds of stones of grain at home are a loss anyway, and they don't bother to care about him, and the loss is just these hundreds of stones.

"You guys did a good job, the shopkeeper and the chef each gave two buckets of corn, and the man each gave two liters of corn."

If you do a good job, you must reward them, so that you can motivate employees, and at the same time, they will be more attentive to do a good job in performance.

"Xie Dongjia."

The shopkeepers hurriedly bowed to Zhang Chao to thank him.

"Owner, the reputation of our iron rifle shop is outstanding, and the reputation is very good. Every day, more and more people come to buy cakes, and they have to queue up, especially in the morning, when the queue is like a long line. We are busy every day, and we are sold out every day by the afternoon. ”

The shopkeeper had just won the reward of the second bucket, and his face was red with excitement, and the busyness of the past two days was gone.

"I think we can send more buns and buns every day."

Zhang Chao nodded, doing business and opening a store is sometimes like this, once it becomes popular and has a reputation, the business will only become more popular. When they open a shop on the same street and do the same business, they all sell cakes.

Zhang's iron gun shop is now in a long queue every day, but there is no such good business next door. Those people would rather come early to line up than go next door to buy it.

In fact, they can't buy it if they want to, and the yellow buns, meat buns, and soy milk fritters in the iron gun cake shop are all exclusive to the iron gun shop.

Even the bean sprouts and tofu sold by the Zhang family are extra delicious.

"So, I'll go back and send a few people over, and they'll be in the back room. There is a stone mill in the courtyard, and the soy milk sold in the store will be made directly here. If the front is sold out, you can make more preparations in advance. Add a cauldron in front of this, let's fry fritters directly here. ”

As for the yellow steamed buns and meat buns, they are still steamed in Zhangjiagou and sent over, although it is troublesome, but the Zhang family is not only this shop after all, it is steamed by the Zhangjia unified assembly line, which is more efficient.

Soy milk fritters are freshly made, and if you are free, you can also make tofu and dried tofu in the store by the way.

I can also make tofu flowers and sell them when I go back, so that I can add another product to the store.

"Owner, let me tell you something, there is a cake shop on East Street in front, and they also sell soy milk and fried dough sticks this morning, as well as fried fried and siu mai."

The guy on the side said, "They learned from us, a few people have been coming to our store to buy cakes for the past two days, and they always like to ask this and that, it turns out that they are all guys in their store, it's really shameless." ”

Zhang Chao didn't care, imitation of copycats is inevitable.

As long as you do well, there will definitely be people who want to replicate your success and want to take shortcuts. However, Zhang Chao is not afraid, he wants to copy the products of the Zhang family, but they are still short of things.

Why are Zhang's yellow buns so delicious? Because of the addition of soda.

Why Zhang Chao's meat buns are so eaten is because the production process has been improved, especially the meat filling has been specially modulated.

Even soy milk fritters are not so easy to learn, and if you want to fry them fluffy and good-looking, it is essential to put some flour alkali.

Before the Zhang family sold cakes, there were already yellow steamed buns and meat buns, etc., although the names are different, but the things are the same, but these are not as delicious as the Zhang family.

Without core technology, cottages can only be coated with a superficial skin.

Maybe they can pull some customers over temporarily, but as long as everyone has eaten once, they will definitely understand that Zhangjia Cake Shop is more authentic and delicious, and who wants to eat it a second time?

"Shopkeeper, the man who raised the grain came again that day, and he couldn't get rid of it." A fellow came over to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper frowned, "What's the matter with this person, didn't I tell him that we don't buy food in the store?" Ask him to go! ”

Zhang Chao stopped the guy, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the east, it's the people of the Risheng Grain Bank, isn't the price of grain falling every day recently, the Risheng Grain Bank has pressed a lot of grain in his hands, so he doesn't want to make a move, but at the moment in this market, one price a day, falling every day, who wants to buy more grain and let it go." Besides, we don't buy food at all. But this man just doesn't listen, and always comes to pester. ”

"Sunrise Grain Store, it's the one in the east, right?" When Zhang Chao heard this familiar name, he couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Chao of this grain store knows about it, and he has a relationship.

Before he came to Chang'an, he thought about talking to the grain store about buying grain, and wanted to settle the grain price in January and get some preferential prices. At that time, I talked to this Risheng Grain Company, but unfortunately the grain price was high at that time, and the Risheng Grain Bank didn't take him seriously at all, and directly bombarded him away.

Unexpectedly, this feng shui took turns, and it was their turn to beg for help.

"Shopkeeper, tell me about this Risheng Grain Store."

"Back to the east, the owner of this Risheng grain store is also a Bashangren, their house is from the south of the plateau, and the owner's Zhangjiagou is separated by a ditch. The family's surname is Zhao, and their ancestors have been officials and have purchased a lot of land in Nanyuan, so they opened a grain store in Chang'an. ”

Zhang Chao felt a little interesting when he heard it.

"Since the Zhao family is a landlord and sells their own grain in the store, even if the price of grain falls, it will only suffer a slight loss, so you can't be so anxious and beg for food everywhere, right?"

The shopkeeper snorted, "That's what they deserve, the Zhao family has seen the war in the world in the past few years, and the price of grain has remained high, so they have been hoarding grain and raising up the business of Juqi." I heard that their family has hoarded a lot of grain, and not only their own grain, but also a lot of grain, and the more they buy and hoard this year, a lot of it is purchased at a price of more than 400 yuan for a bucket of rice. Now that the price of rice has fallen by more than half all at once, of course he can't sit still. ”

Profiteer, Zhang Chao immediately labeled the Zhao family.

"The owner, I'll ask them to leave immediately, this kind of person is rich and unkind, and now he deserves to be unlucky."

"Wait." Zhang Chao waved his hand, "I want to see this Zhao Dongjia, you let someone pass a word to Zhao Guy." ”